Yes, had an 8 track and the first cassette i bought was Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies album, still listening to Alice Cooper, in fact been listening to From The Inside album on the way home from work today.
Those 8 tracks were notorious for not playing cassettes as they got even a little worn, they start slipping, i had a slightly more expensive player, namely a Harry Moss Carnegie (how the hell can i still remember that but couldn’t tell you where i went 3 days ago) which had an electric release for the cassette where most players were just push in pull out jobbies, so i had loads of free tapes which others couldn’t use but i could.
Back around 1988 or so, we bought an old beast of a Lincoln. It had an 8track deck in it, and we found the best place to find used tapes was at Goodwill; they had bins full of them. We also discovered that you could get brand new, top 40 8track tapes–they were all bootleg, pirate copies out of Mexico, but they worked! Miss that old beast. It had a hood the size of a queen bed, and by the time you could see around a corner intersection, you were halfway into it. But cheap to work on too. I had to do a fuel pump on it; two bolts, two hose clamps and a gasket. $17 for the rebuilt at GI Joes.
Cold freezing days, in a cold car, the 8 track tape would wrap around the cap stand. Before you knew it, half the tape was unwound and ruined. You could see 8 tracks tossed to the curb all over the. city 🌆
I bought a 3 year old 1976 Fiat Spider when I was a senior in high school and it had a 8-track. If the gear shifter was in 1st, 3rd, or 5th it was about a half inch from the playing 8-track. To change out the 8-track I would have to down shift to be able to remove it and put another in. It was a factory system that lasted for about six months where it was replaced with a Pioneer Cassette radio.
Mine had a knob that raised and lowered the read head to keep it reading the track. So sophisticated..
Added a Slip in ,Pull out bracket, had one in my bedroom, a four dollar charger from Gibson’s and the same Bass 48’s in the house and car. Pretty sure they were under twenty bucks a pair.
I was convinced that the cassette tape that followed was The End of advancing the technology. Wrong
Fixed quite a few of ’em, Cederq. Most of ’em just needed the head cleaned, aligned, demagnetized, and the pinch roller either refurbed or replaced.
Still have the Sly greatest.
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Yes, had an 8 track and the first cassette i bought was Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies album, still listening to Alice Cooper, in fact been listening to From The Inside album on the way home from work today.
Those 8 tracks were notorious for not playing cassettes as they got even a little worn, they start slipping, i had a slightly more expensive player, namely a Harry Moss Carnegie (how the hell can i still remember that but couldn’t tell you where i went 3 days ago) which had an electric release for the cassette where most players were just push in pull out jobbies, so i had loads of free tapes which others couldn’t use but i could.
Back around 1988 or so, we bought an old beast of a Lincoln. It had an 8track deck in it, and we found the best place to find used tapes was at Goodwill; they had bins full of them. We also discovered that you could get brand new, top 40 8track tapes–they were all bootleg, pirate copies out of Mexico, but they worked! Miss that old beast. It had a hood the size of a queen bed, and by the time you could see around a corner intersection, you were halfway into it. But cheap to work on too. I had to do a fuel pump on it; two bolts, two hose clamps and a gasket. $17 for the rebuilt at GI Joes.
Cold freezing days, in a cold car, the 8 track tape would wrap around the cap stand. Before you knew it, half the tape was unwound and ruined. You could see 8 tracks tossed to the curb all over the. city 🌆
I bought a 3 year old 1976 Fiat Spider when I was a senior in high school and it had a 8-track. If the gear shifter was in 1st, 3rd, or 5th it was about a half inch from the playing 8-track. To change out the 8-track I would have to down shift to be able to remove it and put another in. It was a factory system that lasted for about six months where it was replaced with a Pioneer Cassette radio.
Mine had a knob that raised and lowered the read head to keep it reading the track. So sophisticated..
Added a Slip in ,Pull out bracket, had one in my bedroom, a four dollar charger from Gibson’s and the same Bass 48’s in the house and car. Pretty sure they were under twenty bucks a pair.
I was convinced that the cassette tape that followed was The End of advancing the technology. Wrong
Fixed quite a few of ’em, Cederq. Most of ’em just needed the head cleaned, aligned, demagnetized, and the pinch roller either refurbed or replaced.
Really, the same for cassette players as well!